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'Earning less is better than not getting the business'

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Nursery World's facebook page was inundated with comments last week, as childcare providers debated the issue of increased financial pressure on parents' incomes, versus raising fees to cope with the rise in provider costs.

Here is a selection of comments from our facebook page. You can read all of them here.

I am not sure whose (fee) has risen by 6 per cent, but I am having to look at reducing mine, by 50p per hour, and asking for parents to provide lunches as even for 15 hours care a week, the expression on the parents' face shows that they want it cheaper. We are getting so few enquiries that to earn £8 less a week is better than not getting the business.

I haven't put my prices up in three years, however I closed my childminding business at Christmas after seven years due to parents' inability to pay their fees now. Rising costs of fuel and food are leaving parents robbing Peter to pay Paul on a monthly basis.

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